Investment-like transactions

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An "investment-like transaction" is a transaction in which a present provision of goods or services is entered into with the expectation of future returns or profits. An investment-like transaction assumes that some or all of the profit will accrue in the future.

For example, the purchase of a stock is a typical investment-like transaction. When purchasing a stock, the investor uses current wealth (money) to buy the stock and expects that the stock will produce a dividend in the future or that the stock price will rise, thereby earning a profit.

Similarly, there are investment-like transactions in business.

When a company purchases equipment to start a new product line, it expects that the equipment will produce new products in the future, which will then be sold for a profit.

It is also a kind of investment transaction in which workers invest their time and effort to work.

By providing their labor to the firm, workers expect to receive a future benefit in the form of a salary.

In all of these cases, investment-like transactions are characterized by the pursuit of future profits using some of the resources of the present.

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